1. DARK WRAITH

Lightning strikes
Infinite
Distant cries unwind
Asunder nascence
A spirit breathes its first
Risen from the ash beneath
A dark wraith
Forlorn, forsaken
A dark wraith, solivagant
White, wild and free

“I bleed
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud
I fall upon the thorns of life“ - Percy Bysshe Shelley


2. SILVER SPHERE

Keen as are the arrows
Of that silver sphere,
Whose intense lamp narrows
In the white dawn clear
Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there
In the golden lightning
of the sunken sun
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth
And, by the incantation of this verse
Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind
Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth

― Percy Bysshe Shelley


3. EINSAMKEIT

I gleam
It feels as though death has overtaken me
Wearily, it rests upon
All I’ve done
All I’ll ever be
Yet I remain
Soaring higher, eager
Amidst its deep gills of oblivion
Besides callous mountains
And their pure and holy rivers, adjacently
Cloaked by the night sky
That presses upon us
Spreading its darkened wings
Transforming everything and everyone here


4. CARPE NOCTEM

Until the fire broke out for a lesser god in its dire infancy
Surfaced, it continued to glow and grow
Implacable, innate
As flames consumed the formless, desperately
A promise of closure never uttered
but merely scoured, above and beneath
Once nothing and ever since the loss
Though, was some or none of this supposed to be
Was it the rust, could it have been the plague
To leave those left in disarray
But in truth, nothing ever means everything
and often suddenly, life has a new meaning
Perhaps tethered to my teeth is a sullen thread
that comes apart at the seams
And yet remains unhinged
For those moments, I mean more than I can dish out
Or more than this dreaded life means to me
And steadily, a lust for the unknown stays true and still
The hands of time expanding the universe for you and me
As the howling end becomes the forbidden hour forever
And just as eternally, I am drawn to your parallel
With unscathed affection and all else forsaken
As clouds gesture to the boundless sea
Under the aegis of a faceless, crimson sky
Ever burning, ever turning, awaiting to plunge forth
To seize the night, down comes the rain


5. SERRATED EDGE

Distant Sight
Serrated Edge
Bare spectrum sheath
Uncovered eyes
Semblance fortified
These walls and doors
Have but seen us passing by
A vision shorn of some other glancing light
So I can see, I can feel
I can be there never again
In shadows of no life, no lies
Eternal unlight


6. CELESTE

An endless array of ceilings above us all
Treading the skyline
Whelmed unforeseen
In the wake of past lives
Losing voice
Losing lungs, vision and light still alive
Aliferous, a broken life
In absence of death and love
In stars of no light


7. MOONFLOWER

Drowning in your sea
Ever changing paths will show
Where I’ve been, you go
Somewhere far away
Where I’ll be, you’ll go
Set free
Adrift, undone
Amidst the fire
As those eyes glow
Morning grieves
Drenched in ash and rain
Half asleep, so lost within a lurid dream
Are we close to the horizon
Is it closure at all
So it ends
Seeing blood and bones
Swept away in the ocean
Took a hand
Turned into something new
More than ever
Ever before
Drowning in your vice
Sunk in the deep blue of another moon
Before you rush back to the shore
Let your eyes show
The dark in your bright
Forsaken Light


8. NAIL AND WOUND

For all warmth has now escaped me
Shielded from rust
My heart soars in agony
Though it’s true that without these wings
I am but a leaf
A solitary feather severed from the body
An empty shell
An abandoned soul
A broken promise
A shattered dream